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Out there in the wild internet there are many dark corridors and places we’ll never be able to visit. Understandably. But on reddit?! I think the people deserve to at least vaguely know the inner workings of their contentocracy. Here’s a list of a few most of us can only see the closed door of:

http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge – A secret community open to whoever has reddit gold or has the “Charter Member” trophy. I’d describe it as a monoclejerk.

tl;dr – add a “p” before the “.com” to any subreddit you visit and voila, you have a fullscreen presentation of all the images.

I like to show my friends cool stuff on the internet but browsing is a real conversation killer. You can’t really lean back, talk and have fun with friends while operating a website, surely not one as clunky as reddit. Even though RES does help.

Welp, not that easy, there was a lot of CSS to handle and the design right now is dead ugly but functional. Also, many stories on reddit aren’t images and I skip those that aren’t in a quirky way. If the url’s 4th character from the right is a dot, I display it. That’s a hack that works for imgur (which is most of reddit’s images) so I’m using it for now until I have more time to fix it. Any suggestions are more than welcome – help improve redditp on github! Also, comics are a pain to watch right now. I might implement some sort of scroll wheel zooming in the future, though that really is a bit of a different use case that might deserve a different site.

I guess not too surprisingly the first 200 visits where mostly to gonewild. You internet you….

Appendix – The hardships

This was overly hard to do – first of all NSFW links gave me the “are you over 18?” prompt which for some reason I wasn’t able to solve by cookies. I eventually turned to the mobile version of the site (append “.compact”) to avoid the prompts completely. Also, matplotlib and networkx aren’t that fun for drawing graphs it seems. To visualize and output the graph I eventually used gephi which was somewhat easy although has it’s clunkiness baggage.

Drawing inspiration from this blog post on title virality I wanted to investigate what makes these top 10,000 titles the best of their breed. Which are the best superlatives? Who/what’s the most popular subject? Let’s start with some statistics:

On Feb. 03, 14:10:45 (UTC) the all-time top 10,000 submissions on reddit (/r/all) had a total of 82,751,429 upvotes and 62,655,532 downvotes (56.9% liked it).